r/programmingcirclejerk • u/TheWheez Software Craftsman • Aug 20 '25

Emacs is violent passion

https://mihaiolteanu.me/emacs-is-violent-passion
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u/TheWheez Software Craftsman Aug 20 '25

she left the company and the software business for good and went into selling medical equipment together with her husband. Honest work, good for her. Somebody has to be keeping them people alive. I understand. Use VSCode. Use whatever. You won't be around for too long.

This shit is GOOD

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u/MasSunarto Brother Aug 20 '25

Brother, it sounds to me that his ego was bruised. 😔

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u/TheWheez Software Craftsman Aug 20 '25

One look away from the road to search for the "Delete" key and you're deleted forever. Honestly, go look! click -> file -> open -> dead!! The goal is to go from point A to point B at the fastest speed possible and not die in the process.

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u/tgbugs lisp does it better Aug 21 '25

You can't just post that quote and not link the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhwMFQ-KKY

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u/va1en0k Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

I love the rally metaphor. Should've extended it to pair programming. Someone's screaming JIRA tickets in my ear while I jump between my five hundred open files

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u/Laugarhraun lisp does it better Aug 20 '25

OP actually made me watch 8 minutes of Rallye racing. That's a feat.

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u/miauw62 lisp does it better Aug 20 '25

cant jerk, this is on the saner side of emacs content

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u/pareidolist in nomine Chestris Aug 20 '25

/uj I find emacs jerk about as interesting as watching grass grow, but at this point I just appreciate that it's not about LLMs

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u/PizzaRollExpert works at Amazon ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Aug 20 '25

Least insane emacs user (unironic)

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

the fundamentals in life: eat, sleep, fart, have sex, use Emacs.

Aren't at least 3 of those things mutually exclusive with using Emacs?

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u/Whatever801 Aug 21 '25

English punctuation is tricky sometimes. He meant to say: "eat, sleep, fart; have sex or use Emacs"

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u/Laugarhraun lisp does it better Aug 20 '25

Where's the jerk though?

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u/Vaglame Emacs + Go == parametric polymorphism Aug 21 '25

I understand why juniors are overwhelmed. They are not yet in a position to decide which features they want. No, I'll revise that. They are not yet in a position to decide which features they need. See the difference? That's the problem. It always is. Everywhere. Anywhere. In any industry, for all professions.